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DEltas, vulnerability and Climate Change: Migration and Adaptation
(DECCMA)
Project Overview
Project Overview
Project Overview
Threatened DELTAS(Ericson et al (2006); IPCC AR4, 2007)
Population potentially displaced by current sea-level trends to 2050 (Extreme >1 million; high =1 million-50,000; medium 50,000–5,000 people)Global population in deltas is about 500 million people
THE PROBLEM:
Project OverviewLecture 4. Climate change and the integrated coastal system.
Wednesday 25 July 2007
Cyclones/ Marine Processes
River Floods/ Sediment SupplyChanging catchment management
Sedimentation,Tectonics,Subsidence,Fundamental Population and Economic Change
NATURAL PROCESSES
HUMAN‘PROCESSES’
‘GlobalClimate Change’
ClimateVariability
Project Overview
Key Delta Characteristics• Complex systems with large vulnerable populations• Multiple drivers at multiple scales• Rapid resultant change, including significant migration• (Lack of political representation – not an automatic focus for policy)• Climate change needs to be analysed in this dynamic context, including established
and emerging migration• As climate change and sea-level rise increases, so the range of sustainable
adaptation choices diminishes
Project Overview
DECCMA AimsBetter understand in deltas:
1. migration processes, including the role of climate change2. adaptation choices, with a focus on migration.
This will take a participatory and adaptive pathway approach that addresses gender dimensions.
Project Overview
DECCMA ConsortiumFour lead institutions:Northern: University of Southampton, UK (Lead: Prof. Robert Nicholls)
Bangladesh: Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Lead: Prof. Munsur Rahman)
India: Jadavpur University (Lead: Prof. Sugata Hazra & Dr Tuhin Ghosh)
Ghana: University of Ghana (Lead: Prof. Samuel Codjoe)
Project Overview
Study sitesa b c
(a)Ganges-Brahmaputra delta, Bangladesh/India; (b)Mahanadi delta, India;(c)Volta delta, Ghana
Project Overview
Work Package Structurea b c
Project Overview
DECCMA OutcomesThe analysis will guide sustainable and equitable development of deltas and will:1. identify gender-differentiated stakeholder-relevant scenarios of
local/regional/delta level vulnerability to climate change;2. identify options for effective climate adaptation by the poorest groups
in deltas; and3. lead to the development of gender-sensitive adaptation funding
proposals in the four deltas.
This work was carried out under the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA), with financial support from the UK Government’s Department for International Development (DFiD) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada. The views expressed in this work are those of the creators and do no necessarily represent those of DFiD and IDRC or its Board of Governors.
Website: www.deccma.comTwitter: @deccma